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MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1769-1866
Abstract:  

The papers include miscellaneous letters, letterbooks, books, certificates, and diplomas of various members of the Muhlenberg family. Among them are photostats of letters and papers of General John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg and officers of the Continental Army on military affairs in the Southern Department during the American Revolution (1772-1804); photostats of letters to Albert Gallatin, Nathanael Greene, Edward Hand, Winthrop Sargent, Baron von Steuben, William Alexander, and George Washington; photostat of General Muhlenberg's journal of trips to the Ohio (1784, 1797); photostats of letters and notes of Gotthilf H. E. Muhlenberg, including a diary kept at Halle (1771) and extracts of thirty letters to Stephen Elliott of Beaufort and Charleston, South Carolina (1808-1815); photostats of letters of Henry A. Muhlenberg about his biography of General Muhlenberg (1848-1849); and photostats of letters of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787). Also included is an original letterbook of Peter Muhlenberg, paymaster of the United States Army, kept at Augusta and Savannah, Georgia (1836-1842). Henry Muhlenberg's notebooks (1784-1813), written in Latin or German script, in a small hand, includes a wealth of botanical observations, with a focus on Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The Henry Muhlenberg journals are a record of daily occurrences, with many features of a commonplace book, containing prescriptions, notes of questions asked candidates for the Lutheran ministry, and the plan of a barn. There is also a biographical account of Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787).
Call #:  
Mss.B.M891
Extent:
4.25 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1745-1955
Abstract:  

A collection of letters, legal papers and financial records of three generations of the prominent Philadelphia family. Spanning 1745-1955, detailed are the legal cases and political advocacy work of John Kintzing Kane (1795-1858), Robert Patterson Kane (1827-1906), and Francis Fisher Kane (1866-1955). Also includes correspondence, architectural drawings, and photograph albums of the Cope family. Robert Patterson Kane's daughter Eliza Middleton Kane (1863-1952) married the Philadelphia architect Walter Cope (1860-1902) in 1893. The APS papers of Elisha Kent Kane are in call no. B K132.
Call #:  
Mss.Ms.Coll.115
Extent:
56 Linear feet
Subjects:  

Antebellum Politics | Architects. | Architectural drawings. | Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- American. | Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Bancroft, George, 1800-1891 | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Bills (financial). | Biographies. | Briefs. | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company. | Commonplace Book | Cope, Eliza Middleton Kane, 1863-1952 | Cope, Walter, 1860-1902 | Deeds. | Diaries. | Diplomas. | Early National Politics | Family Correspondence | General Correspondence | Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | Girard Bank. | Haiti | Indian Rights Association. | Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc. | Institutional Records | Insurance policies. | Italy -- Commerce. | Kane, Robert Patterson, 1827-1 | Law | Law firms -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | Lawyers -- Pennsylvania. | Lawyers. | Legal Records | Letterbooks. | Manuscripts (for publication). | Marriage and Family Life | Mormons -- Utah -- History. | Nauvoo (Ill.) -- Expulsion of the Mormons. | Notebooks | Notes. | Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865. | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social conditions. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | Philadelphia History | Photograph albums | Political Correspondence | Poor -- Services for -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | Prison reformers -- United States. | Prisons -- Pennsylvania. | Receipts. | Religion | Reports. | Saint George Society -- Trials, litigation, etc. | Social Life and Custom | Social reformers -- United States. | Trade | Trials (Espionage) -- United States. | Trials. | U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey | United States -- Commerce. | Ute Indians | Ute Indians -- Removal | Various authors